Progressive collapse is, according to GSA (2003), a situation where local failure of a primary structural component leads to the collapse of adjoining members which, in turn, leads to additional collapse. Since the experimental studies are costly and difficult to...

Anew extension for the applied-element method for structural analysis is introduced. In this method, the structure is modeled as an assembly of elements made by dividing the structure virtually. This paper first introduces the element formulation of the...